{"product_id":"the-genial-gene-deconstructing-darwinian-selfishness-paperback-1","title":"The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Roughgarden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre selfishness and individuality--rather than kindness and cooperation--basic to biological nature? Does a \"selfish gene\" create universal sexual conflict? In \u003ci\u003eThe Genial Gene, \u003c\/i\u003eJoan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book \u003ci\u003eEvolution's Rainbow, \u003c\/i\u003ein which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoughgarden's unique and forceful vision issues a timely, cogent challenge to the predominant world view that selfishness and conflict are the norm in adaptive evolution.--Michael J. Wade, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMating Systems and Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No other book offers such a sustained argument against sexual selection theory and provides such a compelling alternative--substantively important and exciting.\"--Jonathan Kaplan, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This may be the most important book, philosophically speaking, on evolutionary theory in a decade. If Roughgarden is right, males and females evolved as allies, not enemies, and evolutionary theory needs a rethink because competition evolves in a cooperative world, not the other way around.\"--James Griesemer, President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Roughgarden \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Biology at Stanford University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEvolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press), \u003ci\u003eEvolution and Christian Faith, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePrimer of Ecological Theory. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382221259001,"sku":"9780520265936","price":48.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/DYIzDe-wMb9780520265936_f0be0776-3f3e-40f4-ad0d-f379b4c94ffe.webp?v=1770096998","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-genial-gene-deconstructing-darwinian-selfishness-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}